Adrian Law
🇭🇰Hong Kong· Hong Kong
White Bear (白熊) on Instagram — 3rd in the 2025 USIC Stock Division behind Martin Luk and Rajnus Capital, at +264%.
The 2025 USIC $20K-$1M Stock Division podium had Martin Luk's +969.8% world record at the top, Rajnus Capital LLC's +382% in the middle, and Adrian Law's +264% in third — a three-name podium where every audit number is in the kind of territory that would have been a leaderboard outlier in any prior year of the championship. Law runs his public footprint as WhiteBear.trading (Cantonese: 白熊交易) on Instagram and Facebook, which makes him part of the same Cantonese-trader cluster that produced Law Wai-Sum and Martin Luk in the same championship year.
The intra-year trajectory tracks a steady build rather than a single explosive month: +101% by September, +279.7% by October, closing at +264% on the December audit. The slight late-year drawdown into the final number is the typical pattern for a top-three Stock Division finish — most leaderboard names give back a portion in Q4 as the audit horizon tightens. Adrian Law has no surfaced LinkedIn / X handle under his name, but the WhiteBear.trading Instagram is the cleanest active social surface.
The Cantonese-speaking branding (白熊交易 = "White Bear Trading") and the absence of a course / membership program around the audit make him the most reachable Cantonese-tier 2025 USIC trader through direct DM rather than through a paid-program funnel.
Interview
The branding (白熊交易 = White Bear Trading) is distinctive against most USIC competitor identities. Was the Cantonese-first audience always the plan, or did it grow that way?
Cantonese came naturally because it is the language I express myself in most comfortably. WhiteBear.trading started from my own identity, language, and desire to be transparent. On Twitter/X, there are verified traders who post their trades every day and stay transparent. I felt I could do something similar for the Cantonese-speaking trading community. More Chinese users were also using Threads, so it became a good place to share my trades.
The 2025 USIC Stock Division podium had three Cantonese-speaking names: Martin Luk, Law Wai-Sum, and you. Was there any contact between you during the year, or did you all arrive at the leaderboard independently?
We arrived there independently. I do not know them in real life, and there was no contact or collaboration during the year. Everyone traded their own account and strategy. It is great to see several Cantonese-speaking names on the USIC podium. It shows that Cantonese-speaking traders can compete at a high international level.
USIC 2025: +264% in the Stock Division, 3rd place. The intra-year peak was +279.7% by October. Walk us through what happened in the final two months that shaped the December close.
The final part of the year was difficult because the market became cold. My strategy performs better when there is strong volatility, clean momentum, and enough quality setups. In the last months, there were fewer setups and less volatility for my style, so the market simply did not favor my approach. The account pulled back from around +306.5% in November to +264% in December. I believe I did everything correctly according to my system. It was just a market environment that did not favor my strategy.
You completed the HK$260,000 to HK$2,000,000 challenge in 172 days and are now targeting HK$10M. How does managing a personal challenge account at that pace feel different from the USIC audit format?
For me, it was actually the same. The USIC competition and my personal challenge happened during the same period. I joined USIC in June because I saw the growth speed of my personal challenge account and thought I might have a chance to reach the top three. From there, I started reporting my trading statements to USIC. I was not trading two separate accounts or using a different approach for USIC. I was simply reporting the results from my personal challenge account to USIC. So the trading format did not really change. The strategy, risk control, and execution were the same. USIC was more like an audited record of the challenge I was already doing.
You trade for Trade The Pool as well as your own account. How do you think about splitting focus and risk discipline between a prop firm structure and a personal championship account?
I treat them as two different trading environments. A prop firm account has clear rules, so with Trade The Pool my job is to respect those rules and stay consistent. It taught me discipline and risk boundaries when I was still a beginner. A personal account gives me more freedom. It allows me to take more risk for higher returns, but it still has to be done with strict risk management. Because it is my own capital, I cannot treat freedom as an excuse to take random risk. Prop firm trading taught me to stay rule-based, while my personal account allows me to trade more aggressively when the opportunity is worth it. The core principle is always the same: control the downside first, then think about returns.
What is a quality in yourself that the WhiteBear.trading audience would not guess?
People may think I am naturally a high-risk person because of the several -30% drawdowns I have posted.
Which year of your trading career was the one you actually stopped losing money for good, and was the WhiteBear.trading brand born before or after that?
I would say 2025 was the year I stopped being a losing trader. WhiteBear.trading started after my first Trade The Pool payout. I began posting my trades on Threads because I wanted to document the process and be transparent.